+Version 4.2 of DragonFly brings significant updates to i915 and Radeon support, a move to GCC 5 (and the first BSD to do so), a replacement to Sendmail, and numerous other changes including OpenSSL updates, a new boot screen, improved sound, and improved USB support. 4.2.1 was released July 1st to fix a problem with Intel video chipsets. Version 4.2.2 was mis-tagged and immediately replaced by version 4.2.3 on July 13th, with a newer version of OpenSSL.

-The [[DragonFly 2.10.1 release|release210]] is now available! This release sports significant compatibility and performance improvements and many new features! Binary packages from the 2011Q1 release of pkgsrc are already available.

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-### Google Summer of Code for 2011

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-DragonFly has been accepted as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2011, see [the announcement](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-03/msg00040.html) on the kernel mailing list! Check [[the 2011 page on this site|docs/developer/gsoc2011/]] for details on potential projects and student application guidelines.

+Go to the [4.2 release page](release42) page for details, or [[download]] via one of the [[mirrors]].

-The <a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/">DragonFly Digest</a> is also on <a href="http://dragonflybsd.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dragonflybsd">Twitter</a>.

Some other features that are especially useful to system administrators are variant symlinks (i.e. symlinks that are resolved at runtime based on user-specific or system-wide variables) and a performant and scalable TMPFS implementation. Our system makes pervasive use of NULLFS mounts, which allow the administrator to make arbitrary parts of the filesystem hierarchy visible in other locations with virtually no overhead.

-A major crux of any open source operating system is third party applications. DragonFly leverages the pkgsrc system to provide thousands of applications in source and binary forms. These features and more band together to make DragonFly a modern, useful, friendly and familiar UNIX-like operating system.

+A major crux of any open source operating system is third party applications. DragonFly leverages the dports system to provide thousands of applications in source and binary forms. These features and more band together to make DragonFly a modern, useful, friendly and familiar UNIX-like operating system.

The DragonFly BSD community is made up of users and developers that take pride in an operating system that maintains challenging goals and ideals. This community has no reservation about cutting ties with legacy when it makes sense, preferring a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to development of the system. The community also takes pride in its openness and innovative spirit, applying patience liberally and always trying to find a means to meet or exceed the performance of our competitors while maintaining our trademark algorithmic simplicity.